By the decision of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Folklore of ANAS, the monograph “Folklore and Islam” by Galib Sayilov, senior researcher of the Department of Ceremonial folklore and national culinary traditions, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, has been published. In the study the theoretical and applied aspects of folklore-religion relations have been studied systematically.

The book consists of the preface, introduction, five chapters and a list of literature. In the introduction of the book the author mentions that the relationship between folklore and religion is one of the most pressing problems of folklore studies, justifying that this topic is directly related to the dynamics of the development of public consciousness. Here it is showed that during the Soviet era, the issue of “folklore-religion” was explained one-sidedly within the framework of a materialist-atheist methodology, as a result of which the scientific depth of the problem faded into the background.

In the introduction it is said about the need to consider this field at a new theoretical and methodological level in the modern era and substantiates the concept that folklore and religion are worldview codes with historical-syncretic roots and mutually nourishing one another. This approach defined the general idea of the work and laid the foundation for the study of the relationship between “Azerbaijani folklore and Islam” from a new scientific perspective.

The study serves as a theoretical basis for modern research in folklore and religious studies and can be used as a textbook in higher education institutions. The book is planned to be translated into several languages and presented to the international scientific community. The publication is considered an important step towards a systematic scientific solution to the problem of “folklore and Islam” in Azerbaijani humanitarian thought.

It should be noted that the scientific editors of the book are the academician Vasim Mammadaliyev and Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor Seyfaddin Rzasoy.

Link to the electronic version of the book.